What kept me up at night is wondering what is coming down the pike... who knows if feature X, Y, or Z in your new Twitter app might get a stop-work order from Twitter. That's really scary.
On Oct 14, 11:13 am, Neicole <[email protected]> wrote: > Is Twitter crazy?! Have they even looked at their own user, market, > and competitor information? > > Twitter has said they are actively pursuing businesses (and bloggers) > and doing away with recurring tweets does away with key business > value. Besides, there are technical solutions to this problem, so why > implement a blanket policy that will negatively impact Twitter and its > users. > > I just blogged my reasons, based on data, for why this is such a BAD > idea. "Dear Twitter, please don't kill your market"http://bit.ly/1N5AHA > > On Oct 13, 1:31 pm, JDG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, and should be treated as such. I personally detest all those stupid > > twitter-based games. Point is, with Twitter's userbase, some get through the > > cracks. Don't like it, report it. This is like complaining that cops only > > pull over SOME speeders. Yeah, some are going to get through the cracks. > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 14:29, PJB <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For the sake of argument, let's take this at face value as true. How > > > > about the search pollution issue with recurrent tweets in general? > > > > You may have a point. But it comes down to uneven enforcement. > > > Twitter smacks down an app because they allow an individual to recur, > > > say, every Monday: "Today is Monday and my office hours will be from > > > 2:15-3:30pm". > > > > Meanwhile, you have apps which do things like this: > > >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23fun140 > > > > Aren't those effectively recurring tweets? > > > -- > > Internets. Serious business.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > >
